Committee member says secret deal has cost lives and worsened U.S. interests

A committee member at a hearing challenged the secrecy surrounding a foreign‑policy agreement and said the public should be able to see the terms. "If this deal is so good, why can't the public see it?" the committee member asked.

The speaker listed what they said were concrete harms tied to the agreement: "13 service members dead," "3,000 Iranians killed," and "tens of billions of dollars, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars in 3 months," and said prices had spiked for "gasoline, utilities, fertilizer, groceries, everything is more expensive," the committee member said. The speaker argued that, despite those costs, "none of Donald Trump's original objectives have been met," listing goals such as degrading Iran's military capabilities and ending its nuclear ambitions as unmet.

The committee member contrasted the current agreement with the Obama‑era deal, saying any new agreement "still needs to be negotiated and is very unlikely to be better than the original deal under President Obama." They said the deal falls short of the administration's stated aim of securing the Iranian regime's unconditional surrender and freeing the Iranian people, concluding that there is a reason the agreement has not been published: "it makes plain that this is one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in many generations."

The hearing record shows this was a statement and line of questioning by the committee member; the transcript contains no response recorded to these assertions and no formal action was taken in the portion of the record provided.